Un-su Kim

A mind-bending work of literary fiction from one of South Korea's hottest new novelists. Cabinet 13 looks like an old, ordinary cabinet. But it is filled with stories - peculiar, strange, eye popping, disgusting, enraging, and touching stories. The life of the man who manages cabinet 13, an ordinary office manager, is similarly filled with stories. Un-Su Kim intricately interweaves the all these stories with precise prose and in rich style, and will leave you thinking about the stories inside your own cabinet long after you turn the final page. Translated by Sean Lin Halbert

The Cabinet

• A complex and darkly funny noir thriller that led to a six-way international bidding war in the US • Un-su Kim has been hailed as a rising star of Korean literature. The Plotters is his first novel to be translated into English • A fascinating moral tale about power and corruption in Korean society filled with betrayals, power struggles and effortlessly smooth assassinations • Reseng is a young assassin working for a powerful syndicate of professional killers. But when Reseng steps out of line on his latest job, the hunter becomes the hunted. Will he be next on the kill list? Or will three young women with a subversive plot of their own change the status quo? • In the vein of Roberto Bolaño and Haruki Murakami, The Plotters has all the hallmarks of a thriller paired with a highly original voice and a cast of unusual and notable characters • Much attention has recently turned towards the originality and style of Korean crime fiction, with books such as Han Kang’s The Vegetarian amassing significant literary recognition • Un-su Kim has won the Munhakdongne Novel Prize, Korea's most prestigious literary prize, and was nominated for the 2016 Grand Prix de la Littérature Policière

The Plotters

Guerres de succession dans la mafia coréenne À propos de Kim Un-su : " Après le polar scandinave, place au polar coréen ! Kim Un-su, le "Henning Mankell' de Corée, ouvre la voie. " The Guardian À propos des Planificateurs, son précédent roman : " La Corée à corps et à cru. " Libération " Des cinglés et des meurtres sur commande. " The Washigton Post " Une narration cinématographique pour des implications métaphysiques. " Corriere della Sera " Un roman génial : l'énergie, l'esprit et le lyrisme d'une voix littéraire totalement originale. " Goodreads

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A thriller like you've never read one before, from the hottest new voice in Korean fiction 'Kill Bill meets Murakami' D. B. John, author of Star of the North'A work of literary genius' Karen Dionne, internationally bestselling author of Home'A truly incredible and unique thriller' Khurrum Rahman, author of East of Hounslow'I loved it!' M. W. Craven, author of The Puppet Show'You'll be laughing out loud every five minutes' You-jeong Jeong, author of The Good Son'A mash-up of Tarantino and Camus set in contemporary Seoul' Louisa Luna, author of Two Girls Down'An incredible cast of characters' Le monde'Smart but lightning fast' Brian Evenson, author of Last Days Plotters are just pawns like us. A request comes in and they draw up the plans. There's someone above them who tells them what to do. And above that person is another plotter telling them what to do. You think that if you go up there with a knife and stab the person at the very top, that'll fix everything. But no-one's there. It's just an empty chair. Reseng was raised by cantankerous Old Raccoon in the Library of Dogs. To anyone asking, it's just an ordinary library. To anyone in the know, it's a hub for Seoul's organised crime, and a place where contract killings are plotted and planned. So it's no surprise that Reseng has grown up to become one of the best hitmen in Seoul. He takes orders from the plotters, carries out his grim duties, and comforts himself afterwards with copious quantities of beer and his two cats, Desk and Lampshade. But after he takes pity on a target and lets her die how she chooses, he finds his every move is being watched. Is he finally about to fall victim to his own game? And why does that new female librarian at the library act so strangely? Is he looking for his enemies in all the wrong places? Could he be at the centre of a plot bigger than anything he's ever known?

The Hottest New Crime Thriller You'Ll Read This Year

In der südkoreanischen Hafenstadt Guam herrscht das Verbrechen. Um zu überleben, ist den Menschen jedes Mittel recht. Auch Huisu ist mit allen Wassern gewaschen. Seit zwanzig Jahren erledigt er für Old Son, den Kopf von Guams Unterwelt, die Drecksarbeit. Von Bestechung über Schmuggelei bis hin zum Auftragsmord – Huisu schreckt vor nichts zurück. Doch seine Loyalität wird nicht belohnt, und Huisu fristet ein trostloses Leben im Schatten des übermächtigen Old Son. Bis er eines Tages ein verlockendes Angebot von einem aufstrebenden Ganoven aus Guam bekommt ... Entschlossen sagt sich Huisu von Old Son los und zieht mit dem berüchtigten Yangdong ein eigenes Glücksspiel-Geschäft auf. Aber Geld fällt nicht vom Himmel, und konkurrierende Kasinobetreiber bedrohen die beiden. Als schließlich eine fremde Gang versucht, die Macht in Guam zu übernehmen, geraten die Dinge außer Kontrolle ... Mit Heißes Blut legt der koreanische Bestsellerautor Un-Su Kim einen weiteren aufwühlenden Krimi noir vor, der den Leser mitten ins südkoreanische Gangstermilieu entführt.

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